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Tutorial: Make Your Own T-Shirt Scarf
While Luke and I are taking in the glorious sights of Melbourne, the Great Ocean Road, and Adelaide, Kim from Petit Pas has come over to share an awesome tutorial with you! Please make her feel welcome by leaving her lovely comments, and then going over to check out the beautiful blog she shares with her husband, Morgan. 
-T
As things are starting to cool down for all of us in the Southern Hemisphere, my sister asked me to
make her a scarf. I bought one made from curled jersey fabric last year off etsy, so decided I wanted
to give it a go and make one myself and share how to make it with you while Talia’s away…
Materials.
All you need to make this scarf is an old t-shirt with no side seams, some scissors, a measuring tape,
some chalk and a sowing machine (you could hand sow it too if you don’t have a machine).
Step 1: First you need to cut off the waist band/hem at the bottom of the t-shirt and cut off
the top half where the sleeves start.
Step 2: Next you want to cut strips out of the shirt width ways in 1.5 inch intervals.
Measure and mark 1.5 inch down both sides to help with the cutting.
Step 3: Once you have cut all the strips you need to stretch the strips out. This will create
the curling effect and will also finish the edges so they don’t frey.
Step 4: Finally, collect all the strands together and sow them down. Now you have a
pretty new scarf to keep you warm. Depending the width of you shirt, you should be able to wrap it
around a few times and try many different things.
enjoy.
- kim
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Tutorial: Making Your Embroidery Ready To Hang
*Luke and I are on our Melbourne / Great Ocean Road / Adelaide holiday at the moment, no doubt missing Pepper, so this is a pre-scheduled post. Something I don’t usually do, but it had to be done to fit everything in! Enjoy!*
Lately I’ve seen heaps of beautiful embroidery hoop works of art (just check out my pinterest board to see how many!), and if you’re inspired, like me, then you might like to try a few.
Once you’ve got through making it all though, you’re probably wondering how you make all the extra bits stay behind, and ready to hang on the wall.
This is my own take on how to get it ready to hang, but you can also read Carina’s different take on how to stitch things up at the back.
Tutorial: Embroidery Hoop Wall Art from Talia Carbis on Vimeo.
Tags: embroidery, embroidery hoop, hoop, tutorial
Craft Group
It’s been a little while since I told you what I’ve been doing at craft group, hasn’t it?!
Well, I haven’t been for quite a few weeks because of sickness, uni, and work, so this week I finished off some projects that were well overdue! This little bag below is one of the things I just finished off. I’ve filled it with the embroidery projects I have to finsih (there are WAY too many of them in there!!) When I was making it I even had a play with some of the cute decorative stitches. Definitely want to get myself a nicer sewing machine with stitches other then straight and zig zag!
I’m thinking of putting up a little “how to” for this bag, so stay tuned for that soon! One of the things I love, love, love about craft group is the fact that we all use the same pattern, and end up with such beautifully different pieces in the end! It’s mostly just from the colours we choose, but also the emblishments that each person adds!
I’ve also NEARLY finished my angels… I sewed their little wings together, and now I just need to decide if I want to do anything else to them (I’m thinking no…, what do you think?).
I’m not sure if there is a pattern for these angels or not… possibly from a Homespun magazine… I will try and find it for you if want, just let me know in the comments, or send me an email (talia.carbis (@) gmail.com).
Last week the girls made the CUTEST little owls from Claire‘s pattern. You can buy and download the pattern here- it’s only $10 and they are quite fun to make! I’m a little way behind with mine- I just have a half finished one. I’m using a grey and purple sock, so it will be super cute! I think I might make some for a friend who going to have a baby soon(ish)!
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